contracted
契約した
解説 Definition
contracted は contract（契約する）の過去形・過去分詞で、「契約した」という意味です。会社や人が仕事、サービス、義務について正式に合意したことを表します。
Contracted is the past tense and past participle of contract in the sense of entering into a formal agreement or hiring a person or organization to provide specified work, goods, or services.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 contract「契約する」に -ed を付けた過去形・過去分詞で、contract–contracted–contracted と規則変化し、語尾 -ed は /ɪd/ と発音します。contract a supplier や contract a team to do work は「業者・チームと正式に契約する」の型です。「収縮した」「病気にかかった」という別義は文脈で区別します。
Form contracted regularly by adding -ed to contract; because the base ends in a t sound, the ending is pronounced as an extra syllable, /ɪd/. Picture a company signing an agreement with a supplier or a school hiring a bus service: the company contracted a supplier, and the school contracted a service for a trip. A useful pattern is contract someone to do something, meaning to hire that person or organization under a formal agreement. Contracted can also mean “became smaller” or “caught a disease,” but contracts, suppliers, services, and work identify the target business sense.
例文
The company contracted a new supplier.
その会社は新しい供給業者と契約しました。
We contracted a team to repair the roof.
私たちは屋根を修理するチームと契約しました。
The school contracted a bus service for the trip.
学校は旅行のためにバス会社と契約しました。
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contracted の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 contrahere（con- 共に＋trahere 引く）の過去分詞 contractus に由来。「互いに引き寄せて結びつける」が原義で、そこから契約・収縮の両義が生まれた。関連語に contract（契約）、extract（引き出す）、attract（引きつける）があり、すべて語根 tract（引く）を共有する。
Contracted is the regular past tense and past participle of contract. Contract comes through Latin contractus, the past participle of contrahere, formed from con-, “together,” and trahere, “to draw or pull.” The underlying image of drawing parties together developed into the sense of making a binding agreement. The same Latin root appears in attract and extract, while the physical sense of drawing together also produced contract meaning “shrink.”
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